It feels as if standing again   In the pouring rain   As I let past's spirits gain   Control over me      And they speak so impatiently   But all I see   Is that I sacrificed myself   For nothing      May this be the last day or night   Before I fade away with a final sigh   My tired eyes have seen enough for a life   So if the time has come to leave it all behind   These wrinkled hands are not too lame   To embrace freedom again      You made me bear   All these memories alone   The void of the unborn son   The pain that you generate      Oh, God is it true that you watch over us all?   Did you weep or just laugh   When seeing my people fall?      Down by the river   And high up in the skies   In those deep valleys   Where their tortured bodies lie   Forgotten      With every monolith that falls   I feel the dying pulse   In the vein   Of my generation      But all the voices I hear they seem so real   Can they make me believe   That you're here with me?   (That you're still with me)      Down by the river   And high up in the skies   In those bleak valleys where my   Broken bones will dry      Forgotten by all   Abandoned by man   To follow the call I'll resist   While I have the strength      As if ever thoughts could melt steel   As if prison walls were to be torn by will   As if ever time could heal the wounds   Inside      As if on the fateful paths I tread   All friends and loves I've ever had   Were still around and not lying dead   Dead like stones